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#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Data-Driven Integration Kernels for Interpretable Nonlocal Operator Learning

Machine learning models can represent climate processes that are nonlocal in horizontal space, height, and time, often by combining information across these dimensions in highly nonlinear ways. While this can improve predictive skill, it makes learned relationships difficult to interpret and prone to overfitting as the...

Savannah L. Ferretti, Jerry Lin, Sara Shamekh et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Learning to Advect: A Neural Semi-Lagrangian Architecture for Weather Forecasting

Machine-learning approaches to weather forecasting often employ a monolithic architecture in which distinct physical mechanisms, such as advection, diffusive mixing, thermodynamic processes, and forcing, are represented implicitly within a single large neural network. This is particularly problematic for advection, whe...

Carlos A. Pereira, St\'ephane Gaudreault, Valentin Dallerit et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Butterfly Effect and the Kinetic Energy Cascade in Probabilistic Machine Learning Weather Prediction Models

This study analyses kinetic energy (KE) spectra, difference kinetic energy (DKE) spectra, and signatures of KE transfer across spatial scales in four state-of-the-art probabilistic machine learning weather prediction (MLWP) models: NeuralGCM-ENS, FourCastNet 3, AIFS-ENS, and GenCast. Results are compared with those fro...

Jiakai Chen, Joel Oskarsson, Simon Driscoll et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Every Fixed Metric Has a Blind Spot: A Learned Atmospheric Critic for Scoring Forecast Realism

Despite their high accuracy on point-wise metrics, machine learning weather forecasting models can exhibit different failure modes such as blurring, periodic irregularities, and other unphysical spatial artifacts. This has motivated a variety of metrics to detect known failure cases. Existing metrics fix a representati...

Younes Elberkennou, Dmitri Demler, Thierry Meier et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint May 2026

Composable multi-satellite precipitation estimation for evolving observing systems

Rapid and spatially continuous precipitation monitoring is critical for flood, landslide, and other hydrometeorological hazard warnings, particularly in regions where rain-gauge and weather-radar networks are sparse. The coordinated use of heterogeneous satellite observations, including geostationary infrared, passive...

Yun-Fan Yang, Hao-Fei Sun, Xiu-Yu Sun et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Partial recovery of meter-scale surface weather

Near-surface weather varies over tens to hundreds of meters, yet remains unresolved in analyses and forecasts. We test whether this variation can be inferred without resolving atmospheric dynamics. Combining sparse weather stations, high-resolution Earth observation, and coarse atmospheric dynamics, we infer temperatur...

Jonathan Giezendanner, Qidong Yang, Ruizhe Huang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

IRENE: A Convolutional GRU Ensemble Model for Radar Precipitation Nowcasting over Italy

We present IRENE (Italian Radar Ensemble Nowcasting Experiment), a deep learning model for probabilistic short-range precipitation nowcasting over the Italian domain at \SI{1}{km} spatial and 5 min temporal resolution. IRENE adopts an encoder--forecaster architecture built on multi-scale Convolutional Gated Recurrent U...

Alessandro Camilletti, Gabriele Franch, Elena Tomasi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Aries: A Proprietary Medium-Range Weather Prediction Model for the Energy Industry

Medium-range weather forecasting underpins operational and planning decisions across the energy industry. Developing competitive weather models was once the domain of national meteorological centers, but recent advances in machine-learned weather prediction (MLWP) have opened the field to industry. We present Aries, a...

Lukas Hedegaard Morsing, Arian Bakhtiarnia, Jonas Lynge Olesen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Calibrating subgrid parametrizations of single-column ocean models via simulation-based inference

Subgrid parametrizations of vertical mixing in ocean models depend on free coefficients that cannot be measured directly and must be calibrated against high-fidelity references such as large-eddy simulations (LES). Existing approaches return point estimates and leave the associated uncertainty unquantified, a limitatio...

Luben M. C. Cabezas, Sacha Wendling, Aur\`ele Gallard et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

From objective discovery to prediction of global ocean eco-provinces: A pathway for trustworthy learning

Marine ecosystems are increasingly impacted by climate change, necessitating tools to identify and predict spatial habitat information. To build such tools, ecological marine provinces,"eco-provinces", ecologically meaningful regions in the global ocean can be used. We use unsupervised machine learning (ML) to identify...

Makayla McDevitt, Maike Sonnewald, Stephanie Dutkiewicz · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Land Art as a Big-Data Climate Sensor

Robert Smithson's 1970 land artwork Spiral Jetty, located in the north arm of Utah's Great Salt Lake, has alternated between submergence and exposure during severe lake decline. We analyze 1,744 co-registered Landsat 4-9 and Sentinel-2 image chips spanning every year and calendar month from 1984 to 2025. A 14-feature c...

Alev Cinbarci, Sean Kalaycioglu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Hurdle-RMIL: Addressing Zero Inflation and Long-Tailed Imbalance in Infrared Rainfall Retrieval

Imbalanced labels can cause frequent samples to dominate AI-based quantitative remote sensing, degrading rare-event retrieval. In rain-rate retrieval based on satellite infrared brightness temperatures, this imbalance leads to systematic underestimation of rare high-intensity rainfall. In this study, Hurdle-Retrieval M...

Fangjian Zhang, Xiaoyong Zhuge, Wenlan Wang et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 6, 2026

What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us

Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complexity.  The post What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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